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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will come into force tomorrow, affecting all organizations that do business within the European Union. Here's a partial summary of our robot Athena's view of the future of GDPR. Tomorrow is only the beginning. We can expect its influence to be strongly felt for at least the next five years until it becomes part of good business practice.

Do contact us to see how we can help you track future GDPR developments as they are announced or reported.

Sentiment analysis

Sentiment towards GDPR was increasingly negative up until April with reports of organizations ignoring the regulation or delayed in their ability to be ready for the new data protection regime by tomorrow. But as the deadline approached stories began to change towards the positive aspects that can be attained after implementation.
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This is the first time Athena has reported a tipping point in the past reflecting the fact that GDPR has long been coming with most organizations aware of the need to comply with the new rules.

But, GDPR is only now gaining traction and at an early stage. With tomorrow's deadline approaching we can expect GDPR to evolve rapidly as the EU imposes fines, competition uses the regulations to its advantage and the public become a crowd-sourced means of keeping organizations up on their toes. We've already seen some organizations go out of business e.g. Klout, who previously relied on selling your data but now cannot do so. More may follow, and the costs of compliance may escalate as GDPR is strengthened in the future!

Sectors

Sectoral responses have been mixed depending on just how much personal data is collected by various industries. But overall response has been muted. It remains to be seen whether this low-key response was the correct approach or whether the regulators will adjudge that insufficient progress has been made and impose heavy fines and other penalties on the worst transgressors.

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Athena used the sources below as the top ones to create this report and determined which embedded forecasts are included in this Trend Alert. She found 330 forecasts in seconds on the 24th May 2018 to allow us to publish this summary in less than an hour. She can turn these into PowerPoint slides and Audio files in minutes too as you wish, or we can prepare a full customized and professionally written brief for you to order covering all 330 forecasts.

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